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I would say it's more because of lobbyists who want the government to do everything, but also want more tax loopholes that allow their handlers to avoid paying tax. But tax prep services definitely benefit from an overly complex code

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Im going to enjoy watching The Brain Machine at Whipples IRL. Fucking cunts didnt realize their jobs were the easiest automated things ever. Thats the only thing that episode got wrong, Mgmt will be one of the first to go.

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There are some uses for humans in accounting, such as determining whether a "loan" from your own company is really a loan or if it is income. Once determinations like that are made, tracking, recording and reporting is easily automated.

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The governments have all sorts of ever changing rules. Of course each business knows their expenses vs. revenue, but with these various regulations they can pay much less tax if they report them in certain ways or change how they take money out of the company (salary vs dividends, offshoring profits, etc).

Human accountants exist to file the 100s of forms correctly and to find loopholes that allow the business to be competitive, because everyone else is trying just as hard to avoid the theft of taxation.

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Not really - many clerking tasks can be automated but not A/P or actual cases. Think about how easy it would be to fool the self checkout if there was zero oversight. Automation's main weakness is that it interacts with humans and we are more clever and inscrutable than they are. Self-driving cara, for example, are easily bullied off the road by human drivers.

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Self-driving cara, for example, are easily bullied off the road by human drivers.

Until the AI gets a process for submitting footage of illegal/reckless driving it has recorded to police so abusive humans can be punished accordingly (e.g fines or loss of license). People will probably have to drive more sensibly once that happens.

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Ive had my credit stolen several times, and its always a pain in the ass.

What infuriating about all this, is i didnt ask for them to keep my credit history, nor did i ask to keep all my confidential info either.
It's ludicrous that i will suffer because they keep my info against my wishes.

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As far as I know, anyone who had an Equifax credit score. So almost anyone who ever had a house load, car loan, or credit card. If you pay any type of utility (or rent) where you needed a credit check first, chances are when you pay those bills they are reported to Equifax. So if you fall into any of those categories, your data was probably part of the leak. There are two other another credit score services (TransUnion and Experian) and occasionally some of the things I mentioned are only reported to one service (in which case I believe it is possible to have a credit score without having an Equifax "account") but that's very rare.

Now, whether your data was/is/will be used for identity theft at any point in the future (1,5,10,50+ years in the future), who knows. "But don't worry! As compensation here's a limited time trial of our subscription service that will monitor your credit!"

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Don't I have to demonstrate a loss in order to sue? I can't sue for what MIGHT happen with my personal info... But I could sue for the value of that personal info... Need to figure out what that number is.

How much money will you conceivably have to spend in order to fix EFX's fuckup? How much time will it take? What is your time worth?

All of those things can be considered cognizable "damages".

Further, I think pointing out that the judge's own personal information was most likely stolen as well might be a persuasive argument. If you can stoke his personal acrimony towards EFX, he may let you slide a bit on the proof of damages.

Can we get some lawyer goats to provide some details on how to proove damages, or at least what to claim the damages are? Perhaps some resources to research? I think that would boost our odds significantly.